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Podcast: Horst Simon Says; Google and NASA Take Quantum Leap
Post Date: May 17, 2013 @ 1:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Nicole and Addison continue to discuss the exascale race in light of Horst Simon's recent Q-and-A and consider the possibilities of D-Wave's quantum computer.
Podcast: New HPC Products in the Mid-Range and A Strong Yen for Exascale
Post Date: May 10, 2013 @ 3:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Nicole and Addison discuss mid-range HPC products, the Japanese exascale initiative and the Irish500 this week.
Podcast: End Users Speak Up on Accelerators and Leadership Changes in HPC
Post Date: May 02, 2013 @ 2:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
This week Nicole and Addison discussed the growing trend of accelerators and leadership changes in HPC, including Intel's new CEO.
Podcast: ISC13 Preview and A Look Ahead at HPC Trends to Watch
Post Date: April 26, 2013 @ 11:21 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
This week Nicole and Addison discussed the upcoming ISC13 conference and HPC trends to keep an eye out for, like interconnects.
Podcast: Supers, Part II and The Upgrade, The Successor, and The Classified
Post Date: April 19, 2013 @ 12:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Nicole and Addison discussed Indiana University's upgrade to Big Rad II and moving Seqouia to classified work.
Podcast: A Red X on T-Platforms and Taking an Axe to Exascale
Post Date: April 12, 2013 @ 12:12 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
This week Addison and Nicole talked about a red x on T-Platforms and taking an axe to Exascale.
Podcast: Top 10 Insights for 2013 and Roadrunner's Retirement Party
Post Date: April 05, 2013 @ 12:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Nicole and Addison discussed the top 10 insights for 2013 and the retirement of Roadrunner.
Podcast: Flipping on Flops and I Dedicate this Supercomputer to Science
Post Date: March 29, 2013 @ 11:00 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Nicole and Addison discussed flipping on flops and I dedicate this supercomputer to science.
Podcast: GPUs in San Jose and Xeon Phi in France
Post Date: March 22, 2013 @ 8:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Nicole and Addison discussed GPUs in San Jose and Xeon Phi in France.
Podcast: HPC on the Brain; NREL's Energy Efficient Data Center
Post Date: March 15, 2013 @ 2:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Richard and Addison discuss the NIH's initiative to map the brain along with NREL's new HP and Intel-powered green HPC facility.
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In a recent solicitation, the NSF laid out needs for furthering its scientific and engineering infrastructure with new tools to go beyond top performance, Having already delivered systems like Stampede and Blue Waters, they're turning an eye to solving data-intensive challenges. We spoke with the agency's Irene Qualters and Barry Schneider about..
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Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
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May 22, 2013 |
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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May 15, 2013 |
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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May 10, 2013 |
Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.